TERESA
BERGEN'SMadame Tingley's Organ:
Eddie Martinelli ended in date rape. In the present, Lex attacks
her bandmate after he tries to capitalize on publicity surrounding
her sister's death

DAN
FANTE's Mooch: If you are getting the feeling that
Bruno's life is about to explode, you might be right. He's just
found out that the woman he loves has a son - a genius chatterbox,
and that she doesn't give a damn for anything other than her next
hit of crack

EUGENE
MIRABELLI's Trinicria: We rejoin the old painter
Renato Stillamare as he scribbles about his mis-spent youth. In
the previous excerpt he told how his infant self was found on the
doorstep of a large, disorderly Italian-American family... In this
excerpt he chronicles some of the women he met along the way

JULIAN
SEMILIAN's Skeuromorph Detective: But now the hours
were passing, perhaps, I reasoned, it is her season to make me panic
by exaggerating this ruse, how could I ascertain whether she imperiously
intended this comedy to be horror